Festival News

Old Settler's Fest Initial Lineup

Source: JamBase
January 17, 2010

23RD ANNUAL OLD SETTLER'S MUSIC FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES INITIAL 2010 LINEUP

Joe Ely The four nights of the upcoming and much anticipated Old Settler's Music Festival, which won an Austin360.com A-List readers poll, promise a bonanza of the acclaimed roots music that has delighted attendees and repeat attendees for 23 years, and will do so again this year. The Austin, TX festival is scheduled for Thursday, April 15, through Sunday, April 18.

Award-winning songwriter-producer-recording artist Joe Ely, a veteran of the ...

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Winter Jazz Fest 2010 in Chicago Suburb Features Mambo Zombies

Source: JAZZzology by Richard Watters
January 16, 2010

Located in Glen Ellyn, IL, a southwest suburb of Chicago, College of DuPage is the venue for WDCB Jazz at the MAC Winter Jazz Fest featuring among others (Orbert Davis, Kurt Elling, Zvonimir Tot, Ari Brown, Laurence Hobgood, Steve Ramsdell, Tom Tallman to name a few)...the Mambo Zombies on Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, 10 p.m. in Theatre 2... Shifting to this intimate theatre, the late night set features the sizzling sounds of Chicago's hottest Latin jazz sextet, The Mambo Zombies. ...

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Packing Them in at NYC Winter Jazzfest

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
January 15, 2010

By Tad Hendrickson

Jazz festivals typically take on one of two forms: One is big production events where multi-stage outdoor festivals take on a carnival-like atmosphere as fans jump from stage to stage taking in bits and pieces of several sets over the course of an hour. Or they can be single house (club) events where dizzying array of bands work abbreviated sets on a single stage in more of a showcase style, as the audience stays put. There're variations ...

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SFJAZZ Spring Lineup

Source: JamBase
January 15, 2010

SFJAZZ ANNOUNCES THE ARTIST LINEUP FOR THE 11TH ANNUAL SFJAZZ SPRING SEASON

SEASON RUNS FEBRUARY 19 - JUNE 12, 2010

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: KEITH JARRETT, CAETANO VELOSO, BOBBY McFERRIN, KURT ELLING WITH THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA, BOOKER T., PHAROAH SANDERS, JOSHUA REDMAN, CHARLES LLOYD, MAX RAABE, SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE, MARCUS MILLER, ZAKIR HUSSAIN, LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO, DIANNE REEVES, MACEO PARKER, PUNCH BROS W/ CHRIS THILE, SOULIVE, AL DI MEOLA'S WORLD SINFONIA, LOU DONALDSON, ISSAC DELGADO

The 11th Annual SFJAZZ Spring Season lineup ...

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Anita Rosamond Performing on Dave Koz Smooth Jazz Cruise

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 14, 2010

Singer and pianist Anita Rosamond (pictured) is escaping the St. Louis winter cold this week, heading down to the Caribbean where she's been added to the roster of performers for the 2010 Dave Koz Smooth Jazz Cruise.The sold-out cruise, which starts Saturday and continues through January 24, is produced by St. Louis-based Jazz Cruises LLC. It will feature nearly 40 musicians and singers, including Rosamond and two East St. Louis natives - vocalist Phil Perry and saxophonist Andre ...

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Nineteen-Eight Records Six-Day Music Festival in Toronto

Source: Michael Ricci
January 14, 2010

The Rex Jazz and Blues Bar will host a six day music festival featuring Nineteen-Eight Records artists from February 2-7, 2010. Highlights of the week-long event include appearances by 2007 Juno Award Winner Chris Tarry and RUDDER, the NYC based quartet whose most recent album, Matorning, was named one of the top ten albums of the year by the Boston Globe. Information is available by calling The Rex at 416 - 598 - 2475. Additional information on the artists is ...

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Two Nights, 11 Bands at NYC Winter Jazzfest (Part 2: Saturday)

Source: Lubricity
January 14, 2010

I'm finally starting to recover from my weekend of extreme jazz consumption at the 2010 NYC Winter JazzFest.  For some initial thoughts and a recap of my Day One experience on Friday, click here.  For some other excellent Winter JazzFest recaps, check out Ben Ratliff, Nate Chinen, Ben Allison, Jacob Teichroew and Hank Shteamer.

Having attended Winter JazzFest last year, Friday had pretty much been in line with my expectations.  Great music, solid crowds, high energy, good times.  But I ...

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NYC 2010 Winter Jazzfest: Part 3 of 3

Source: The Mantle
January 13, 2010

By Matthew Young Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Jazz music has nothing in common with the grey spruce lying unwanted on the Bleecker Street sidewalk, its shreds of tinsel swaying upwards with cold winter gusts. The NYC Winter Jazzfest's Saturday venues are, in fact, hot houses for a verdant field of talent. Rumors of jazz's demise are greatly exaggerated with so many genre-bending improvisers sprouting up these days. For a little green ($25 for one night, $30 ...

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